rice_sandwich wrote:
Rebuying games that you were foolish enough to sell one (or more?) times shouldn't count. Having to splurge the cash again is punishment enough. I am laughing at you from side stage. There's no reason to further punish the poor fools who unwittingly entered into the challenge. The spirit is more important than the letter (except in the case of certain users who we won't mention...)

Yes but by that argument Phattso is allowed to buy Rabbids, so you must be wrong.

monkman76 wrote:
I think that's crazy. Again, I haven't done it - but if I buy MGS5 (got about halfway through then sold) or Witcher 3 (about 3/4 through) in a deep sale, I won't be counting them. This thread has never been about the money, so selling and re-buying is neither here nor there. It's simply going from abandoned to rediscovered.

It's not about the money. It's a challenge for the year.
Any game you play in 2018 counts(be it purchase, install, play - whatever your version of the rules are).

If you start something in Jan, sell it on in March and repurchase to complete in July - (you're an idiot but) 1 game logged. Same with installations, because that doesn't make any difference.

If you started and sold something last year, or 5 years ago, and repurchase/reinstall to play it - 1 game logged. You're dipping into your backlog to complete a title but backlog games still count if you play them this year.

monkman76 wrote:
I think that's crazy. Again, I haven't done it - but if I buy MGS5 (got about halfway through then sold) or Witcher 3 (about 3/4 through) in a deep sale, I won't be counting them. This thread has never been about the money, so selling and re-buying is neither here nor there. It's simply going from abandoned to rediscovered.

It's not about the money. It's a challenge for the year.
Any game you play in 2018 (be it purchase, install, play - whatever your version of the rules are).

If you start something in Jan, sell it on in March and repurchase to complete in July - (you're an idiot but) 1 game logged. Same with installations, because that doesn't make any difference.

If you started and sold something last year, or 5 years ago, and repurchase/reinstall to play it - 1 game logged. You're dipping into your backlog to complete a title but backlog games still count if you play them this year.

wait,are doing a play 10 games in a year challenge as i think that is something different?

Comedy value says it's not allowed. Common sense and adhering to the noble spirit of the thread that was so generously gifted to the forum in his all knowing foresight by our illustrious, capital letter screaming, math loving forefather - may he be free to buy dlc for games he idiotically sold - says that it's ok. We shouldn't judge those who have no self control. It's what Phattso would want.

Derblington wrote:
Maybe it'll help get out of the habit of buying/selling/re-buying over and over.

I think there are only three people in this thread that actually do this with any regularity.

I was happy with my time with Kingdom Battle and knew I didn't want to 100% it, though less than impressed with Horizon, so didn't feel the need to just have them sitting around gathering dust. Selling them on in the swapsies thread was more about letting someone else enjoy them than actually offsetting the cost. That and avoiding game related clutter, having spent most of the last three years selling off my retro collection that had been moved from house to house to house because nostalgia.

I don't think it makes sense to keep these newer games on the off-chance the DLC/Season Pass actually delivers. Sure it appears to have bitten me on the arse here, but in general I'm happy with my approach.

Well, as someone who has unfinished disc games and digital games, it seems strangely arbitrary to say I can pick up, say, GTA5 (which I have digitally, and abandoned around halfway) having not touched it for years - but if I buy MGS5 (which I got halfway through on disc then sold) for about £5 I have to count it. Both exist in the same category in my mind, it just happens that I bought them in different ways.

Yeah, there's no way I'm including backlog games in this. Getting round to playing them (and devoting proper time to them) is the whole reason I'm doing the challenge - not just to stop buying so many games. I was already exercising restraint with my purchases in 2017, but this challenge gives a clear goal to aim for.

Where do you stand on double-dipping on a second system? That has been decreed by the hordes and the maestro as not counting, as long as the second dip is not a remaster. That being so, double-dipping ON THE SAME SYSTEM surely cannot count.

As I said, you do you. I don't really care how you pick your games, I just don't think it makes a lot of sense to buy old titles to limit buying new titles. You're going through the exact same process to play a title.

I'd log double-dipping too. You're buying a title to play that you wouldn't be playing otherwise.